Just as Sadie was feeling pleased with herself, a white light shot toward them.

"Watch out, master!" she cried.

Frank had already noticed it, however, and sidestepped it before dashing straight to hut, punching it down.

As the hut collapsed with a crash, the tendrils from earlier vanished, and the many other attractions of the amusement park faded as well.

"What the heck? Is this place haunted?" Sadie was utterly mystified.noveldrama

However, Frank still sensed a curious presence and rummaged through debris of the hut.

Soon, he found a painting that was buried underneath.

Sadie, who loved her horror stories, immediately noticed something strange. "Don't touch it. It might be cursed."

Frank was certainly not worried about that and picked up the painting to see that it was a portrait of a woman.

The paper itself looked ancient, but for some reason, it did not have the stylistic sense of its time.

Draconian art revolved around empiricism, and therefore, portraits of women reflected the aesthetic sense of their respective era. This was different, however, as the woman drawn was a modern beauty in every sense of the word, with her large eyes to her luscious lips all depicted with extreme detail...

That was when it spoke. "Die."

The tendrils on the painting suddenly manifested and shot toward Frank. Still, just as he was about to dodge it, his ring flashed with golden radiance, and the tendrils vanished.

The woman in the painting howled before stammering, "Y-You're..."

As if going through a dramatic change of attitude, she was suddenly bowing respectfully at Frank!

"Strange!" Frank rolled up the painting, taking it with him.

As he returned to Sadie, she exclaimed in fear, "Please, Master! Don't bring it along... It's so scary!"

Frank shook his head. "It's fine. This painting is basically a creation of the spiritron vein like you. The fact that my ring stopped it from attacking proves that."

Sadie nodded but remained curious. "Well, this spiritron vein that you speak of must be really amazing if it can create stuff like this... maybe it could make a helicarrier too?"

She was clearly no longer spooked, even able to crack jokes with him now.

Frank smiled but said nothing and was ready to leave when a smart car pulled up beside their Range Rover.

Sky Mystic Two then alighted. "So? Is my gift to your liking?"

Sadie was furious and strode up, snapping, "Where did it come from? And you call that a gift? It almost killed my mentor!"

"Calm down." Sky Mystic Two

smiled. "Do I look like someone who

would hurt your mentor? I knew he

was different as soon as I saw his ring, and only he would be able to subjugate that painting!"

"Cut the crap," Frank growled coolly. "So what on earth is it, really?"

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"She was a human like us, altered with the energy from your ring like us," Sky Mystic Two replied. "However, she was bound to the painting against her will, granting her certain abilities but also restricting her considerably.

"To put it in Sally York's terms-she's an art wight eternally bound to that painting, She exists as long as the painting stays intact and will be destroyed if the painting is destroyed."